Russia’s not our enemy
Is the US trying to push the EU into war with Russia? It’s starting to look like it…
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What democracy really means
Now that the referendum is over, the focus of the media has leapfrogged the coming months and focused on the general election. Nothing else is held to be relevant.
Strike call in NHS England
Unison members in the NHS in England are to be called on to take part in a four-hour strike on 13 October for more pay. But after that, what?
Health care professionals face 7-day challenge
People who work in health know that low levels of service provision over the weekend put patients’ lives in danger. The problem is how to move to 7-day provision while preserving wages and conditions…
Concert celebrates bonds of friendship
A Glasgow concert for unity formed part of the campaign to keep Britain together by promoting the No vote in the Scottish referendum.
Playing games with safety
The government wants to integrate the emergency services. The unions involved know what this really means: cuts in services, jobs and standards.
TTIP and the unions
Many unions are opposing the proposed transatlantic trade and investment treaty – while supporting the EU and endorsing its exclusive right to negotiate TTIP on our behalf.
A system set up for slavery
The government is sponsoring a series of television adverts against slavery in Britain. The domestic servant, the farm hands, the sweat shop labourers, the sex worker etc. The great unsaid, but obvious from the presentations, is that these modern-day slaves are migrant workers.
Self-employment on the rise
The level of workers categorised as self-employed has reached its highest level in Britain for over 40 years according to the Office for National Statistics.
A worker’s life in struggle
Students of the British working class should study the history of a man who fought in nearly every major struggle in the 1970s and 1980s on Merseyside…
Eurobriefs: The latest from Brussels
Germany economy shrinking…From lobbyist to Commissioner…Migration up…EU and Scotland…Barroso on the referendum
Mining: Union loan saves pit
Hatfield Colliery in South Yorkshire, one of the three remaining deep British mines, has been handed a lifeline in the shape of a £4 million loan by the National Union of Mineworkers.